PARENTS PLUS FACILITATOR TRAINING
Parents Plus provide facilitator training and supervision for professionals in delivering the programmes and can provide specific support in the roll out of the courses in your agency. In addition, Parents Plus have a specific Quality Protocol and Facilitator Accreditation process to ensure high stakeholder engagement and effective delivery.
Parents Plus also have a sponsorship scheme to provide reduce cost training and materials for individuals and agencies keen to run the programmes. Please contact admin at parentsplus.ie for details:
FACILITATOR TRAINING SCHEDULE
FACILITATOR ACCREDITATION
ONSITE TRAINING FOR YOUR AGENCY
WHO CAN FACILITATE THE PARENTS PLUS PROGRAMMES
DELIVERING THE PROGRAMMES
FACILTATOR TRAINING SCHEDULE
Click here to download brochure and booking form for our 2012 Parents Plus Training schedule
Parents Plus Early Years Programme 16th, 17th, 18th April 2012
Venue: Catherine McAuley Research Ctr., Dublin 1
Parents Plus Children’s Programme 17th and 18th May 2012
Venue: Catherine McAuley Research Ctr., Dublin 1
Parents Plus Adolescents Programme 11th and 12th June 2012
Venue: Catherine McAuley Research Ctr., Dublin 1
Working Things Out 2 10th 11th May 2012
Venue: Catherine McAuley Research Ctr., Dublin 1
Supervision Workshops 3rd May 2012 9:30-1pm
Venue: Mater CAMHS, James Joyce St., Dublin 1
The Parents Plus Quality Protocol is designed to ensure an effective delivery of the Parents Plus Programmes post training. The Quality Protocol centres on a series of checklists to ensure you are establishing client centred goals, gaining session by session feedback from clients and that you regularly have a reflective space in supervision to review client progress and your own practice.
The Parents Plus Quality Protocol is the basis of becoming an Accredited Facilitator, and we recommend that facilitators continue to follow the protocol post accreditation to ensure fidelity to the principles.
The Quality Protocol helps facilitators maintain both the delivery format and the client-centred/ strengths-based principles at the heart of the programme, in order to ensure a continued effective delivery of the Parents Plus Programmes.
Full details of the Accreditation process along with the measures and specific rating forms can be downloaded from the members section.
Parents Plus can provide onsite training in your agency or team which can prove a very cost-effective way of accessing Parents Plus training for your whole team. In addition, Parents Plus can provide specific support in the roll-out and evaluation of the programmes to ensure effective community wide delivery.
Please contact us directly(admin at parentsplus.ie) if you are interested in hosting a training in your agency.
In recent years Parents Plus has provided onsite training to a range of community and clinical services throughout Ireland and the UK. This has included:
• HSE social work teams,
• Fingal Child Care Committee
• Community Development Initiative Tallaght
• National College of Ireland
• Early Learning Initiative
• South Gloucestershire Family Support services
• Wakefield Educational Psychology Service
• Cork/Kerry Early Intervention Teams
• Autism Specific Services Armagh
• Barnardos Family Services
• Carrigaline Family Support Services
• Brothers of Charity Disability Services
• Parentline Helpline
• Kerry VEC schools
The Parents Plus programmes are versatile packages suitable for delivery in clinical and community settings. They can be delivered by a variety of professionals, including teachers, social workers, speech and language therapists, psychologists, psychiatrists, public health nurses and health visitors or any professionals working in child care, family support or community settings.
As the Parents Plus Facilitator Trainings are relatively short trainings they are designed to build upon existing professional skills and experience. As a result the facilitator training is generally only open to the child care, mental health and education professionals such as those listed above. In special circumstances it is sometimes possible for people without the professional qualifications above to attend the training such as parents who have attended the parents plus courses and are supported by a local community agency. Please contact us in these circumstances
The Parents Plus Programmes are designed as collaborative educational/therapeutic courses to be delivered by trained professionals to small groups of parents over six to twelve weeks.
The programmes have been successfully delivered in:
- Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
- Mainstream and Special Schools
- Family Centres and Community Resource Services
- Disability Services
- Child Protection Agencies
- Professional Training Agencies
The programmes can be delivered as general parenting programme targeted at parents within the community who are dealing with the normal ups and downs of bringing up children and teenagers, and also as intervention targeted at parents whose children are exhibiting specific behavioural, emotional and developmental problems.
During the weekly sessions, specific topics are introduced via DVD teaching examples. The DVD examples contain real and role-played scenes of parents and children interacting, backed up by professional and parent interviews and comments. The DVDs are of high production value and have an entertaining and flowing format which allows each sub-section on the video to be watched through as a unit, or to be paused at various scenes for replay and closed scrutiny.
Learning is enhanced in each group by group discussion, role play, practice examples, homework and handouts. Each week one positive parenting idea (on play and communication, reading, helping children learn etc) and one positive discipline idea (on rules, routines, consequences discipline plans etc) is covered so as to meet the different needs of families. There is also room in the course to include modules on specific challenges such as education, dealing with ADHD, or Anxiety and Depression, depending on the needs of the group.